HELP! First Time buyer getting cold feet.

ddschuman wrote:
This will be our 3rd year of camping/RVing or in our case "vacationing". We are not yet retired as we own/operate an AC business in which our hope is to one day be able to pass it on to our sons who currently work for us. I am 44 and DH is 50. We lived in a FW with 3 teenage boys while we built our house almost 10 years ago. We learned about upkeep and maintenance from that experience. We sold the FW as soon as the house was built and never pulled it anywhere. Like OP, DH is used to pulling trailers of all kinds. He is an antique tractor enthusiast/puller and often pulls a gooseneck hauling 2 Minneapolis Moline tractors to various pulls around Texas and even into Mississippi. He had some of the same concerns with height of FW etc. as OP has. It was my idea to start camping. I found a small used TT in very good shape that we paid cash for and we hit the road to test it out. We loved the trip so much but felt so cramped in the limited space we had. It was much smaller than the FW we once lived in. The next year we went to a few dealers and looked at new fivers. Undecided if trading was something we really wanted to do. We spent a couple of months looking and just having fun dreaming and then decided to bite the bullet. I will admit that when we first got our FW, DH was uneasy for several trips while pulling, backing, setting up...everything. I thought for sure we had made a mistake even though we loved the unit once it was set up. I finally asked him about his uneasiness because I knew his experience with hauling heavy loads. His comment to me was "I can't see through it". We have taken several trips now and it doesn't seem to bother him at all anymore. He told me on the 1st trip out this year that he is glad we have it and it no longer bothers him.

Thanks very much for your reply! Had to chuckle when I read your post because, oddly enough, I too am an antique tractor enthusiast who actually collects and hauls Minneapolis Moline tractors on a gooseneck trailer. The only difference is that I take mine to shows and do not use them for pulling events. Also, your DH's comment about "I can't see through it!" is EXACTLY, verbatim, what I told my wife the first time I pulled the 5er home! So very ironic and humorous.

Thank you so much for your input. It DOES help me to know that I will most-likely get used to the difference between the RV and the MM tractors of which I can actually "see" in the rear-view mirror!